Asymmetrical institutional
responses to civil society clauses in
EU international agreements:
pragmatic flexibility or inadvertent
inconsistency? Bruges Political Research Papers
66 / 2017
The European Union’s new, post-Doha Round, Free Trade Agreements include innovative
Trade and Sustainable Development chapters that, with one recent exception, provide for
monitoring of the implementation of the innovatory clauses through institutional architecture
that is confusingly and inefficiently asymmetrical in terms both of composition and support
mechanisms. Less than optimal implementation has, not surprisingly, led to less than optimal
results
